bryde.
steward (a man managing another person’s estate)
Meaning & usage
steward (a man managing another person’s estate)
Where this word comes from
From Old Danish bryti, brytæ, from Old Norse bryti, from Proto-Germanic *brutjô. Cognate with Old English brytta. Derived from *breutaną (“to break”) (see below).
to trouble, bother
to care for, like (with the preposition om)
Jeg bryder mig ikke om smagen af fisk.
Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German brǖden (“to fuck > to trouble”), cognate with German bräuten (“to fuck > to trouble”, archaic, dialect). Derived from the noun brūt / Braut (“bride, (slang) girlfriend”). In modern Danish, the verb has merged with the former one phonetically and morphologically, but it has a distinct form in the other Scandinavian languages, cf. Swedish bry (with the past tense brydde).
to break (to cause to end up in two or more pieces or to make an opening in something)
to break, violate (a rule or rules)
to break (to win a game as receiver)
to refract (to cause a wave to change direction)
to wrestle - see brydes
Where this word comes from
From Old Danish brytæ, from Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutaną, cognate with Norwegian bryte, Swedish bryta.
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